Re: [PATCH] git fast-export: add --no-data option

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Hi,

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Irving wrote:

> When using git fast-export and git fast-import to rewrite the history
> of a repository with large binary files, almost all of the time is
> spent dealing with blobs.  This is extremely inefficient if all we want
> to do is rewrite the commits and tree structure.  --no-data skips the
> output of blobs and writes SHA-1s instead of marks, which provides a
> massive speedup.

ACK.  I was looking for such an option recently, and was disappointed that 
it was not there yet.

Ciao,
Dscho
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